The Dragon Box

Until twelve-year-old Aidan McAllister and her ten-year-old brother Zach spend three stormy days with their eccentric great-aunt, Aidan never imagines she will sit in the Florida governor's chair, eat sushi with a dragon, help a homeless punk fairy with a nasty attitude, meet a landfill dwarf, or witness a grueling dragon duel. Only open this box when it's raining, Aunt Neece says. When Aidan picks up a carved jade figurine from inside the box, a flash of light blinds her. Standing before her and Zach is J, a green dragon who loves anything fishy and hates violence. At first, J and the contents of the box provide an amusing way to survive the bad weather, but the ancient wooden box holds plenty to fear. When Aidan turns thirteen in two months, the box and its contents will pass from her great-aunt to her-if she has the courage to accept her inherited, familial role as a cosantóir, a lifelong guardian dragon position dominated by Dragon Rules.